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This project looks to develop policy on controlled burns and to establish workable guidelines on when controlled burn may be appropriate.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
How to comply with regulations for energy recovery and advanced conversion technologies.
In 2017, for the first time, energy from renewable sources exceeded 10% of the UK’s overall energy consumption. More than a quarter of this renewable energy came from burning wood, the largest single source of renewable energy in the UK.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
ELLA is the Evidence and Lessons from Latin America programme
The U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Government incentives for CHP schemes
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Charity trustees must 'have regard' to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when carrying out activities to which it's relevant.
Information on good laboratory, manufacturing and distribution practice, good pharmacovigilance practice (GPvP), out-of-specification investigations, inspection metrics and fees.
Guidance and advice on sustainable development and environmental management for the benefit of public health.
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